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Just then, Nasbir, the Zodangese general who had recently led a large army to rescue Aiden and the others, burst into the temple. Before Saint Zachariah invited them in, he had instructed that no one should interrupt, so Nasbir was followed by two flustered Earth Goblin monks.

Nasbir's intrusion startled Aiden, and both Kassadin and Kayle looked displeased. However, the High Priest and Turalyon knew Nasbir's character well; this usually Steady general would not disregard the High Priest's orders over a trivial matter.

For him to barge in so impatiently, it must be extremely important news.

"What is it, Nasbir?" Turalyon asked.

The Zodangese general's lips moved twice, and he slowly uttered a few words: "The world is changing."

Everyone in the temple went to the balcony. Without Nasbir pointing it out, they saw an incredibly shocking scene in the sky—the purple sun "An'she" was swaying left and right in the sky, as if struggling fiercely, trying to break free from something.

As this sun rotated, a black spot gradually appeared and expanded.

Aiden asked, "Has this kind of black spot ever appeared on this sun before?"

"Never," the High Priest replied, staring intently at the scene with a trembling voice. "I'm afraid… that prophecy will come true."

Half an hour later, the black spot attached to the moon revealed its full appearance. It was not a black spot at all, but a monster with three tentacles. This kind of body structure immediately reminded people of the Old Gods.

However, Aiden felt that this tentacle monster was a bit familiar. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but then Kassadin's voice suddenly came: "Commander, I sense the aura of Vel'Koz."

Aiden immediately woke up. Yes, this familiarity came from his connection to the Valoran heroes—the Old God-like monster parasitizing the moon was very likely Vel'Koz!

But why would this guy be in Shirethe? Shouldn't he be in the Twisted Treeline?

Years ago, after the Battle of the Frozen Throne, Aiden was exiled from Azeroth by Nozdormu using the Sands of Time, and then drifted into the Twisted Treeline. After a great battle with the Burning Legion and Sargeras' soul, he was sent back to Earth by Aman'Thul.

It was also when crossing the space-time tunnel that he used Aman'Thul's divine power to summon six Void heroes: "Voidreaver" Kha'Zix, "Terror of the Void" Cho'Gath, "the Eye of the Void" Vel'Koz, "Prophet of the Void" Malzahar, "the Mouth of the Abyss" Kog'Maw, and "the Magus Ascendant" Xerath.

These heroes were all left in the Twisted Treeline. Later, after he returned to Azeroth through the Valoran Federation's summoning ritual, he received important assistance from these Void heroes in subsequent battles with the Burning Legion. Kog'Maw and Malzahar also returned to his side as "internal agents."

The remaining four heroes remained in the Twisted Treeline.

However, when Malzahar returned from the Burning Legion's teleportation array in Outland, he brought him bad news: Vel'Koz had disappeared a long time ago. The other Void heroes had not sensed his presence. At the time, they all thought that this "tentacle monster" was having another "research addiction" and had been attracted by something, so he hadn't returned. Aiden thought so too.

But now it seemed that Vel'Koz was not wandering in the Twisted Treeline, but had come to Shirethe for some reason and parasitized it's moon, the third oldest of the sun gods.

And it seemed that he was doing well, actually tormenting the host like this!

But this was not necessarily good news. Aiden was still thinking about how to contact Vel'Koz and get him to provide some important information when Saint Zachariah said in a trembling voice: "Look at the trajectories of the three suns in the sky!"

Aiden remembered that when he first arrived, the three suns in the sky were in a straight line. 

The High Priest knew that they didn't understand the celestial phenomena here, so he explained with deep worry: "Under normal circumstances, Xia, An'she, and Jin will appear in sequence. Xia has the largest volume, but the slowest speed. When dusk comes, the three suns will approach and overlap, and finally disappear almost simultaneously on the horizon."

And now it was about four thirty in the afternoon. Because of Vel'Koz's parasitism, An'shehad almost stopped, so that "Jin" had already surpassed it.

According to this situation, An'she would probably still remain at about five o'clock in the evening when night fell.

That is to say, at night, the sun and moon would appear in the sky at the same time.

This was a scene that Shirethe had never seen in ten thousand years.

In the stone tablet prophecy, G'huun cursed Elune to never see her offspring, otherwise her offspring would unite with G'huun to kill Elune.

And Aiden had to admit an embarrassing fact—that Vel'Koz now seemed to be on the side of the Old God G'huun. If he guessed correctly, this guy was using Old God-like abilities to corrupt An'she, turning it into a corrupted Old God—once he completed it, as the prophecy said, An'she would stand on G'huun's side and resist Elune together.

Before this, Aiden had anticipated all kinds of possibilities for the prophecy to come true, but he had never thought of this one—that the hero under his command would start the prelude to doomsday!

At this time, he could no longer regard himself as a passerby or an observer. No matter what, he must not let the stone tablet prophecy become reality because of Vel'Koz!

"I'm afraid we have to prepare for a war," Aiden thought with a tight heart.

"Who is the opponent?" Turalyon asked. Saint Zachariah, Nasbir, everyone looked at Aiden.

He returned to the map and pointed to the Land of Exile: "We can foresee that G'huun will be released next, and then the situation in the Land of Exile will be reversed."

He paused, and then thought of Medivh in the water not long ago—or rather, the illusion that was very likely Sargeras. He couldn't help but think of more.

Before they came to Shirethe, Medivh and his son Med'an had been captured by the Burning Legion. Without any special evidence, Aiden could deduce that the Burning Legion's goal must be to resurrect Sargeras.

He was not sure whether Sargeras would resurrect using Medivh's body or Med'an's.

To be honest, before seeing Medivh's illusion by the pool, Aiden was more inclined to guess that it was Med'an. Because this half-blood kid had too many advantages—he possessed almost unlimited potential and could withstand unimaginable amounts of energy. Wasn't this the best "container" for Sargeras?

You must know that Sargeras had possessed Medivh decades ago. To be honest, the effect was not very good.

Even though Medivh was the son of Aegwynn, the most powerful Guardian, and possessed unimaginable talent for humans. But the human body always had limits. Even if Sargeras possessed Medivh and worked hard for decades, he could only do behind-the-scenes work.

When his identity was exposed, Sir Lothar led Khadgar, Garona, and a raiding force to attack Karazhan and destroyed this body without paying too much of a price.

This was the disadvantage of a "container" that was not of good enough quality. If he had his own bronze titan body, why would he fear mere mortals?

So as long as Sargeras was not stupid, he would definitely choose Med'an as the container for his soul between this pair of father and son—but Medivh's illusion by the pool just now slightly interfered with his judgment.

Aiden could not determine it for a while.

But one thing was certain, Sargeras had sent him to Shirethe with great pains, and he must have very important plans.

The stone tablet prophecy, the Shirethe Allied Forces, the Old Gods, including Aiden himself, these were likely all pawns on Sargeras' chessboard!

What did Sargeras want?

Aiden listed the other party's needs in his mind. At present, what the master of the Burning Legion wanted most must be resurrection, and then regain his own power. At the same time, as one of the owners of the highest authority, Sargeras had always wanted to completely eliminate the Old Gods—or rather, the monsters that had been infected for unknown reasons and launched an invasion of the real world.

From the latter point of view, Aiden, Aman'Thul, and Sargeras were all consistent, but their means of achieving it were different. The division between Aman'Thul and Sargeras arose from this.

And for a long time, Aiden did not even have his own means or views. He just adapted to the circumstances and tried his best to eliminate the Old Gods.

But not long ago, by the pool, he had his own method. He was now looking for a passage to verify whether this method was feasible.

As for how to find this passage, he had not yet figured it out.

Perhaps it was time to meet Sargeras and Aman'Thul. He thought.

At the same time, he had to go to the Eternal Kingdom as soon as possible to find what "Titan" Aiden might have left behind!

These thoughts only flashed through his mind, and Aiden quickly returned to the matter at hand.

"Next, the Burning Legion and G'huun will have big moves. The battlefield outside the Land of Exile is no longer important. We must shift the focus of our strategy to the Land of Exile!"

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The main continent of the Shirethe planet occupies more than two-thirds of the world's land area, and it is this land that has nurtured the multi-racial civilization of Shirethe. The Land of Exile is a place in the east of the main continent, adjacent to the Silent Sea.

This was once the most prosperous area of the Qiraji civilization and the main battlefield of the War of the Ancients.

To this day, this land still retains some traces of that battle.

Ten thousand years later, a new war began to brew.